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Fr. Donald Goergen, OP breaks open the readings for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, the Body and Blood of Christ, explaining how the Holy Spirit transforms the bread and wine on the altar into the body and blood of Christ, in order to transform us, as we receive it, so that we can leave Mass being more Christ-like than when we came.

This is a welcome statement a made a couple of times at St. Tom's, but I believe we lived it out every day. Feel free to share it - and live it.

SOLEMNIDAD DEL CUERPO Y LA SANGRE DE CRISTO

(Deuteronomio
8:2-3.14-16; I Corintios 10:16-17; Juan 6:51-58)

La…

We - meaning priests - tend to make it complicated. It isn't. Celebrating the Trinity means celebrating hospitality.

Fr. Brendan Curran, OP breaks open the readings for this Solemnity, showing how the readings don't explain the Trinity so much as they point to a way to live out our faith in a God who is One in Three, Three in One, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

SOLEMNIDAD
DE LA SANTÍSIMA TRINIDAD

(Éxodo
34:4-6.8-9; II Corintios 13:11-13; Juan 3:16-18)

La mayoría
de los…

The Church was in a rough place. Jesus had indeed risen from the dead, but the…

The Holy Spirit is Working: 5/28/23 Homily by Fr. Patrick Hyde, OP

Fr. Brian Walker, OP recalls the great events of Pentecost, when the Spirit united believers from different lands and of different languages so that they could come together and understand each other. Yet in the church today, we see many divisions, Catholics against Protestants against Orthodox, liberals against conservatives. We need to reopen our hearts to the Spirit that can unite.

God has given us a lot - maybe we don't notice. Do we keep them to ourselves - or share them? Easy question.

It all comes down to love. Sometimes I think it is the case too many people…

Get ready. The Holy Spirit is coming. The fullness of God is being revealed…

One phrase Saint Dominic is known for, was when as he was near death, he…

"I did not shrink from proclaiming to you the entire plan of God." This is the…

As the gospel was preached to those outside of Jerusalem, and to Gentiles, it…

Empowered by Jesus: 5/21/23 Homily by Fr. Patrick Hyde, OP

Why didn't Jesus just stay here on earth? Wouldn't it be easier for us if we…

DOMINGO
DE PENTECOSTÉS

(Hechos
2:1-11; I Corintios 12:3-7.12-13; Juan 20:19-23)

Hoy, el
domingo de Pentecostés,…

In today's reading, we are reminded that being an expert in the knowledge of…

Fr. Scott Steinkerchner, OP unpacks the readings for the celebration of the Ascension of the Lord, explaining why it was necessary for Jesus to leave in his physical form so that he could return in an even better way through the Church, the new body of Christ.

Today and tomorrow's first readings are interesting to me because it appears…

For 20 May 2023, Saturday before Ascension Sunday, based on Acts 18:23-28

Jesus asks all of us - commissions all of us - to share what he has given each of us.

When God speaks in the Bible, the most common words are variations of "Do not…